Choose the best answer for the following sentence:
Our house is right in the country. There are plenty of nice places to walk in the _____ area.
A. around 
B. near
C. surrounding 
D. nearby

Choose the word that has the underlined part pronounced differently from the rest:
species                 villages                       consequences                     glasses
A. species                 
B. villages                       
C. consequences                     
D. glasses

Find a mistake in the four underlined parts of the sentence and correct it:
Magaret Mead studied many different cultures, and she was one of the first anthropologists to photograph hers subjects.
A. studied
B. different
C. to photograph
D. hers

Choose the best answer for the following sentence:
After the water workers went on strike there was a _____________ of water.
A. drain
B. shortage
C. loss 
D. decrease

Choose the best answer for the following sentence:
I couldn’t decide between the two records, so I bought ____________ of them.
A. each
B. either
C. both 
D. all

Choose the word whose stress is on the second syllable:
important                 politics                    supervise                     concentrate 
A. important                
B.  politics                    
C. supervise                    
D.  concentrate

Choose the best answer for the following sentence:
When I ______________ home, my parents _______________ to work.
 
A. got - went
B. was getting - went
C. got - had gone
D. was getting - had gone

Find a mistake in the four underlined parts of the sentence and correct it:
 My teacher got angrily and kept me in detention after class to learn my lesson.
A. angrily
B. kept
C. in detention
D. to learn

Choose the word whose stress is on the first syllable:
establish                  enterprise                    encourage                      equipment 
A. establish                  
B. enterprise                    
C. encourage                      
D. equipment

Choose the word that has the underlined part pronounced differently from the rest:
introduce                   solution                    honor                     computer
A. introduce                   
B. solution                    
C. honor                     
D. computer